Audit: time to review the cycle

An Audit of Perioperative Antimicrobial Prophylaxis: Time to Take Action

Audit: time to rethink

Editorial Audit: time to rethink Doctors carry out 20,000 audit projects each year. This will have cost the NHS £834 million by the end of the century.1 What is the benefit to patients? Most clinicians would immediately reply "very little". The NHS Executive is more guarded in reply, but, tellingly, has commissioned more research on the value of audit. The NHS Audit Initiative was formally laun...

Using the medical audit cycle to reduce cesarean section rates.

OBJECTIVE Our purpose was to determine whether completion of the medical audit cycle in labor ward practice could safely reduce cesarean section rates. STUDY DESIGN A retrospective medical audit of all deliveries from 1984 to 1988 was performed. The groups of women contributing most to the overall cesarean section rate were identified. Strategies for labor management directed at the primary i...

Audit on Postanaesthetic Patient Handover at the Recovery Room, Completing the Audit Cycle

1Department of Anaesthesia, School of Medicine, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Gondar, Ethiopia 2Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Gondar, Ethiopia 3Department of Nursing, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Gondar, Ethiopia 4Department of Optometry, School of Medicine, College of Medic...

Adherence to medication in the community: audit cycle of interventions to improve the assessment of adherence

Aims and method To investigate whether medication adherence is monitored during follow-up in out-patient reviews. A retrospective audit was carried out with a sample of 50 follow-up patients with a diagnosis of schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder. Following this, interventions were made prior to the re-audit (including text messaging clinicians and prompt sheets in the out-patient departm...